@doschicos - most of those venues are really old, except for Greece and China. Sad.
I was in Lake Placid a few years ago and they are still using their Olympic facilities from 1980 AND the ice rink from the 1930’s! It’s a bit chilly in the older one.
The moment I liked best last night was when Simone Manuel was greeted backstage after her win by her Stanford coach and with two of her Stanford teammates had a tearful group hug of congratulations.
Yeah, @greenwitch. it was the Greece and China ones that seemed wasteful given the little time that has passed. Others would have been obsolete anyway.
Simone Manual’s win was exciting. Nobody was really talking about her; it was all about the Campbell sisters and Sjostrom. Her look of surprise when she turned around and saw her placement in the race was so genuine and heartwarming.
Great day for anyone named Simone yesterday.
“I was in Lake Placid a few years ago and they are still using their Olympic facilities from 1980 AND the ice rink from the 1930’s! It’s a bit chilly in the older one.”
The Los Angeles Coliseum was built for the 1932 Olympics and has been in regular use ever since, including for the 1984 Olympic games,making it the only two-time Olympic stadium. And it will be a three-time Olympic stadium if LA is successful in landing the 2024 games.
Re-use of existing facilities was key to LA turning a profit on the games in 1984. As I recall the bicycle velodrome was one of the few venues that had to be built from scratch for those games. Prior to 1984 the Olympics were horrible money losers, and they mostly still are today. The last Olympic games to turn a profit before LA '84 was, you guessed it, LA '32. .
What even more exciting about that 100 free is the two OR co-breakers! Simone was great, and this 16 yr old is a star of the Canadian team:
http://olympic.ca/2016/08/11/oleksiak-makes-canadian-history-winning-100m-free-olympic-gold-in-rio/
Carpool Karaoke - Olympic Swimmers in Atlanta training before Rio:
@BunsenBurner Thank you for mentioning Penny. She’s a gem and has won 4 medals so far, with one race to go. At 16, she is so relaxed and adorable when interviewed. She was thought to be a swimmer for the future, for the 2020 games and Rio was seen as prep for that. Well, she sure has shown everyone that she is more than capable now of winning. At the turn, she was 7th in that race. 7th, and ended up not only breaking an OR but also winning a gold. Can’t wait to see what she does in four years.
Fingers crossed, alwaysamom!! She is adorable. 
Women’s 10K has happened. No spoilers, but unbelievable… There isn’t anyone with any knowledge of running who thinks this was a clean race. Dope, dope, dope.
Very interesting @MomofWildChild. The winner broke the world record by a lot.
But an American record for Molly Huddle, which I think is clean.
The emptiness of the stands at the track and field events is a little soul crushing.
Happy for them, sure. Happy for me, not so much. I am sick to death of Michael Phelps and his ubiquitous mother (and NBC’s fawning and excessive coverage). And now one of the other US swimmers is predicting that Phelps will be back in '20, and that sounds right. He’ll keep coming back until he no longer can, because his life seems to fall apart when he’s not prepping for a big meet. Ugh.
Ah, say it’s not so, Momof WoldChild.
And dope reports are starting to trickle in…
The medley relay is scheduled for today; I wonder if this affects China’s lineup.
“Per the report, Chen tested positive for the diuretic hydrocorothiazide.”
Dang, there goes my chance of being an Olympic athlete as I take that for my BP. 
Me too!
I love this adorable, expressive Chinese swimmer!
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/fu-yuanhui-happiest-olympian/3460537.html
Make sure to watch the video. She’s gone viral.
You learn something new every day…
I just saw Sweden and the Netherlands play something called women’s handball… played indoors, looks like soccer, except instead of kicking the ball, they throw it.
Who knew this existed…?